Japanese football legend Kazuyoshi Miura said his passion for playing the game was as strong as ever after signing for a third-division team at the age of 58 on Tuesday. Miura, known as "King Kazu", ...

Japanese football has preferred action over noise. The country has spent decades carefully shaping the J.League, developing a domestic ecosystem that now exports talent to the biggest leagues in ...

Riko Ueki, Hinata Miyazawa score hat-tricks as Japan demolish India at the Perth Rectangular Stadium on Saturday. Follow the ...

STANFORD, Calif. -- Tsuyoshi Kawata stood outside Jim Harbaugh's office, took a deep breath, knocked on the door, and entered. It was the spring of 2007, and Kawata was visiting the Bay Area from his ...

This is the last of a six-article series looking at figures who have played a pivotal role in a modern football success story. The first piece, on the rebuilding of Ajax, can be found here. Part two, ...

TOKYO — A pair of Air Force veterans — both former high school football players — are in Japan with a plan to grow the sport and help young American and Japanese players find a professional career.

Japan's national squad will hold a training camp in Monterrey, Mexico, ahead of the upcoming World Cup and be based in ...

LaLiga, the Japan Women’s Empowerment Professional Football League (WE League) and the Japan Women’s Football League (Nadeshiko League) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formalizing the ...

Defenders Rion Ishikawa and Hikaru Kitagawa, and midfielders Yūka Momiki and Honoka Hayashi have been posting Q&A videos in Japanese and vlogging about their days at Everton Yui Mok / Getty Images A ...

Aug 23, 2025; Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; Hawaii Rainbow Warriors placekicker Kansei Matsuzawa (17) reacts after making the winning field goal over the Stanford Cardinal at Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics ...